Pomptinus
- Pomptine, an appellation given to a district in Latium, near Pometia: ager, Liv. 6, 5; Flor. 1, 13, 20: palus, Juv. 3, 307; and freq. in the plur. paludes, the extensive marshy district exposed to the inundations of the Amasenus and Ufens, still called the Pomptine (Pontine) Marshes, Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 59; 26, 4, 9, § 19; Suet. Caes. 47; Mart. 10, 74; Luc. 3, 85.—
- II Subst.: Pomptī-num, i, n., the Pomptine district, Liv. 2, 34: inde Pomptinum sumam, Cic. Att. 7, 5, 3 (Baiter).
is first mentioned in B. C. 71, when he served as legate under M. Crassus, in the Servile war. (Frontin. Strat. 2.4.8.) He was praetor B. C. 63, in which year he rendered important service to Cicero in the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, especially by the apprehension of the ambassadors of the Allobroges. He afterwards obtained the province of Gallia Narbonensis, and in B. C. 61 defeated the Allobroges, who had invaded the province. In consequence of this victory he sued for a triumph on his return to Rome; but as it was refused by the senate, he remained for some years beyond the pomoerium, urging his claim. At length, in B. C. 54, his friends made a final attempt to procure him the long-desired honour. He was opposed by the praetors, M. Cato and P. Servilius Isauricus, and by the tribune Q. Mucius Scaevola, who urged that he was not entitled to the privilege, because he had not received the imperium by a lex curiata; but he was supported by the consul Appius, and by most of the praetors and tribunes ; and as there was no hope of prevailing upon the senate to grant the favour, his former legate, Serv. Sulpicius Galba, brought the matter before the people, and obtained from them a resolution, passed contrary to law before daylight, in virtue of which Pomnptinus at length entered.the city in triumph. (Sal. Cat. 45; Cic. in Cat. 3.2, de Prov. Cons. 13, in Pison. 14, ad Att. 4.16, 5.1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, ad Q. Fr. 3.4.6; D. C. 37.47, 39.65; Liv. Epit. 103.)
In B. C. 51 Pomptinus accompanied Cicero as legate to Cilicia, but he did not remain there longer than a year, according to the stipulation he had previously made with Cicero. (Cic. Att. 5.21.9, 6.3, ad Fam. 2.15.4, 3.10.3, 15.4.9.) There is considerable variation in the orthography of the name. We find him called Pomptinius, Pomtinius, Pomtinus and Pontinius, as well as Pomptinus, which seems the preferable form.
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…ceteros gladio se a multitudine defendit, deinde, ubi a legatis desertus est, multa prius de salute sua Pomptinum obtestatus, quod ei notus erat, postremo timidus ac vitae diffidens velut hostibus sese praetoribus dedit. Quibus rebus…
Sallust, Catilina
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…ita actis constituta nocte, qua proficiscerentur, Cicero per legatos cuncta edoctus L. Valerio Flacco et C. Pomptino praetoribus imperat, ut in ponte Mulvio per insidias Allobrogum comitatus deprehendant. Rem omnem aperit, cuius gratia mittebantur…
Sallust, Catilina
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…me sed etiam a senatu et a vobis manifesto deprenderetur. itaque hesterno die L. Flaccum et C. Pomptinum praetores, fortissimos atque amantissimos rei publicae viros, ad me vocavi, rem exposui, quid fieri placeret ostendi…
Cicero, in Catilinam
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…illis non audiam. Ubi sis hibernaturus et qua spe aut condicione perscribas ad me velim. Scr. in Pomptino vi Id. Apr. a. . CICERO TREBATIO S. accepi a te aliquot epistulas uno tempore ,…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
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…significat. dum acta et rumores vel etiam si qua certa babes de Caesare exspecto. litteras et aliis et Pomptino de omnibus rebus diligenter dabis. Scr. Venusiae ii aut prid. Id. Mai. a. .…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…, approbabo, sed te quoque confido ea facturum, quae mihi intelleges maxime esse accommodata. ego C. Pomptinum, legatum meum, Brundisi exspectabam eumque ante K. Iun. Brundisium venturum arbitrabar. qui cum venerit ,…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
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…plurimum. ego has pr. Nonas Quintilis proficiscens Athenis dedi, cum ibi decem ipsos fuissem dies. venerat Pomptinus, una Cn. Volusius ; aderat quaestor ; tuus unus Tullius aberat. aphracta Rhodiorum et dicrota Mytilenaeorum habebam…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…cur hunc non audistis tam doctum hominem, tam eruditum, prius quam in istum errorem induceremini C. ipsi Pomptino, necessario meo, iam non est integrum ; religionibus enim susceptis impeditur. O stultos Camillos, Curios ,…
Cicero, in Pisonem
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…defendebatur a nobis de legatione revocatus ; nam eum Caesari legarat Appius. Servilius edixit ut adesset. tribus habet Pomptinam, Velinam, Maeciam. pugnatur acriter ; agitur tamen satis. deinde me expedio ad Drusum, inde ad…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…, quod et illo et me invitissimo fiet. sed aliter honeste fieri non potest, praesertim cum virum optimum Pomptinum ne nunc quidem retinere possim. rapit enim hominem Postumius Romam, fortasse etiam Postumia. habes consilia nostra ;…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum